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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Add support for Azure Reservation for Services other than Virtual Machines e.g. Azure SQL and AWS Reserved Instances for AWS RDS

Turbonomic is currently supporting Azure Virtual Machine Reservations and AWS EC2 Reserved Instances ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized, but Azure is offering reservation for a lot of service also supported by T...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Proposal: Introduce Yellow Checkmark for Partial Azure Credential Permissions

Team, From what I understand about Azure credential behavior today: 1) For basic credentials, a green tick appears when the minimum permissions to pull billing data are present. However, key permissions like billing:EnrollmentReader (alghough not ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Views - Allow by Seller

Current View options only allows by Vendor, which restricts us from filtering out AWS Marketplace. If we could create a View by Seller, this would remove Marketplace purchases
4 months ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Under review

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Full integration with Green Pixie

Green Pixies GreenOps solution is fully integrated with Apptio A1 and can export from CLDY to run their emissions enrichment service, however, it would be most useful if there was full integration with Green Pixie within Cloudability in order to v...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Under review

Record a ticket number for DWC plan actions like DB

Can you please add a feature to add an option in DWC to make DWC user to prompt for a ticket a mandatory field while taking any action in plan like rerun, submit, cancel etc. I see multiple users take wrong Plan actions in DWC, its better to recor...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

POST Endpoint for Instana Event REST API

Currently there is no simple way to create Alerts or Alert Channels using the Instana API. Only the PUT method exists which can be used to Create or Update these resources. However, these endpoints require unique IDs to perform these actions, whic...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Add a column on the "List of Virtual Macines" view to show the hostname of the host where each VM is running on

This is particular important for on-premise environment where we need to see the VM-to-Host mapping (true for both VMWare and Power VM)